Laimis Gulbinas

Laimis Gulbinas (16 June 1910-23 February 1943) was a Soviet Red Army officer from Lithuania who led the failed Soleczniki uprising of 1943.

Biography
Laimis Gulbinas was born on 16 June 1910 in Sakiai, Russian Empire (now in Lithuania), and he joined the Red Army in 1928. Gulbinas advanced in the ranks during the Great Purge, and he served as a Lieutenant during the invasion of Poland in 1939. Gulbinas was captured by the German Wehrmacht during Operation Barbarossa in 1941, but he managed to escape captivity and lead Lithuanian resistance to Nazi occupation. Gulbinas' partisans carried out the Soleczniki uprising of February 1943, but the uprising was brutally put down by the SS. Gulbinas and several captured partisans were executed as partisans on 23 February 1943.